2023-11-24 23:51:06
By Working Class Platform
«I had an excellent meeting with Nayib Bukele. “We talked about promoting foreign investment in El Salvador”: Deputy Secretary of State Brian Nichols
Now I give you, but it won’t hurt you. Now it’s your turn…as an act of clowns pretending to fight, this is how we could summarize Bukele’s relationship with the North American empire. We have been witnessing, in recent weeks, what some have called a “flexibility of the US government” towards the Bukele government in El Salvador. It is worth taking into account some important elements so as not to be fooled.
From the beginning, Bukele demonstrated loyalty to the Yankees
It seems that Bukele has more affinity with Republicans than with Democrats in the USA. But rather, he has more affinity with those who represent the most extreme right in that country. It is enough to remember that the newly elected president went to the Heritage Foundation, headquarters of one of the most conservative organizations in the United States, where he gave a speech in which he omitted to question the anti-immigrant policy of Donald Trump (president of the USA at that time) because the solution ‘it’s not getting into a fight with your greatest ally.’ When the Democrats took power, Bukele wanted to distance himself from the US government and has even launched diatribes that seem to challenge the US empire, while officials from that government first made covert and then open and confrontational criticism of Bukele’s different decisions in El Salvador. All in his game of clown slaps, because neither before nor today has the North American country stopped “supporting” Bukele and his people with different types of “help.” For example, on May 27, 2020, a report from the North American State Department was released that recognized the government of El Salvador as a guarantor of human rights. According to the analysis of the Trump administration at that time, El Salvador had met nine criteria that Congress defined as requirements so that, together with Guatemala and Honduras, they could receive $540 million in assistance.
The Pro-Yankee policy continues.
More recently, 4 phenomena have occurred that confirm what we are stating:
A law that allowed journalists or anyone who “transmitted gang messages” to be imprisoned was repealed. The aforementioned law was approved at the time as a gag law that sought to prevent the free exercise of journalism that was uncomfortable for the Salvadoran regime. On the day of the presentation of his application for registration as a candidate for re-election, Bukele said that the United States and El Salvador are friends and partners, softening his incendiary speech against the Biden government. Brian Nichols, US Undersecretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, visited El Salvador and met with Bukele. During his visit he said that “the issue of re-election is something that deserves debate” but that it is the Salvadoran people who must debate and decide whether to allow re-election or not. This contrasts with the harsh criticism that the North American government openly directed towards Bukele’s intentions to remain in power. The visit of the undersecretary of international trade of the Biden government, Mariza Lago, visited El Salvador and the intention to turn El Salvador into a technological hub was announced, which would imply US “investment” in the country, turning it into a “regional technology center.” with a “robust digital regulatory environment.”
Imperialism to the rescue of its enclave in Central America.
All of this has the intentions of both Bukele and the Biden administration behind it.
Bukele has failed with his Bitcoin experiment, from which he intended to obtain financing that would make him less dependent on the United States. The relationship with China has not brought the economic returns that were expected either. The Salvadoran debt only grows and grows and the financing options for the Salvadoran government are very limited and there is again talk of considering the agreement with the IMF for up to $1.3 billion, with the respective “adjustments” that the Fund demands from the government that would only make the conditions of the working class more precarious.
For its part, the US government sees Bukele as the escape valve to the social pressure that could generate imbalance in Central America. But Washington also looks at Bukele’s El Salvador as a piece of its regional agenda for two reasons: immigration and the construction of a digital wall against the influence of China and Russia. That is why it is not surprising that an airport tax has recently begun to be collected as a fee for airport improvements to people from 56 African countries, which amounts to $1,113.00 just for transiting through the airport. This as an effort to stop migration. We all know that the last stop for these migrants is not El Salvador but the United States and the Bukele government serves as a bloodhound against African migrants.
Therefore, given this, the Bukele-Biden administrations are not enemies, regardless of their greater or lesser liking, both will seek alliances that allow capitalism to continue exploiting working people whether in El Salvador or in the United States.
The working class must continue to experiment and discover that Bukele is not their ally and that the United States will not come to eliminate Bukele. We have to trust in the capacity of organization and mobilization of the class because only its strength can free it from the yoke of its oppressors and for this it is necessary to bet not on elections, but on the construction of the political instrument of the working class and the towns of Cuzcatan, whose goal is not to win elections but to organize the class and the people, and lead their struggles until the overthrow of infamous capitalism.
For the Construction of the Political Instrument of the Salvadoran Working Class and the People!!!
San Salvador, November 24, 2023
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